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From: craig@scicom.alphacdc.com (Craig Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: unix make driving VP/ix
Keywords: make VP/ix
Message-ID: <1341@scicom.alphacdc.com>
Date: 26 Feb 89 22:35:49 GMT
Organization: Alpha Science Computer Networks, Denver, Co.
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I have a 386 AT clone running 386ix 2.0 with VP/ix.  A number of
projects involve DOS based compilers (MSC C 5.1, Turbo C 2.0, and others).
I attempt to use the unix make to drive the DOS based tools.  Make
generates command like this :

	vpix -r vpiximage -c cl -c foo.c

This works more or less, but here are a couple of problems.
1) How do I up the environment size in command.com?
   I presume I should set shell=c:\command.com /e:1024 in config.sys,
   but I'm having no luck.
2) Quite often I have to feed <CR>'s to get the compiler to finish.
   I know this is triggerred by various error prompts, but I don't
   have the same problem in stand alone DOS.  I also see this some
   strangeness with stderr redirection.

Any one else attempting such craziness?

Craig H. Anderson
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